Word: high
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Company executives counterpunched with arguments that the reported gains were misleadingly big and that profits really have been rising too slowly. Said R. Heath Larry, president of the National Association of Manufacturers: "We will not become the scapegoat of the Administration. High profits are not inflationary; they promote new technology and investment, reduce pressure on the credit market and lift corporate taxes. You have to feed the cow instead of kicking it if you want the milk...
...those of schizophrenia. Recent studies also have indicated that schizophrenics have 50% more dopamine in their brains than non-schizophrenics, and twice the number of dopamine receptors, the sites where the chemical locks into the central nervous system. One line of thinking is that some people are born with high dopamine levels, but that somehow an "environmental trigger," perhaps some life crisis, sets the stage for schizophrenia. But a growing opinion is that the sickness is entirely chemical. Says Matthysse: "I'd be surprised if family environment made the slightest difference...
...future could, of course, be used to create a Huxleian nightmare. But, in capable hands and under public scrutiny, they need not. At the very least, the drugs may give psychiatry the bold new tools that will enable it to shake off its own current depression and fulfill the high hopes that Freud and his followers correctly held...
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, psychoanalytic chic ran high, generating optimism about its potential that far outran Freud's. The master, of course, thought he had made a decisive breakthrough, but one destined to be modified by other discoveries, some of them biological and chemical. Psychoanalysis, he said, could do little for the seriously ill, such as schizophrenics and other psychotics, and even many neurotics should expect little more than transforming "hysterical misery into common unhappiness." Even that might not be achieved if the patient was too old and set in his ways...
...came quickly. In 1973 three groups of researchers, Solomon Snyder and Candace Pert of Johns Hopkins University, Eric Simon of New York University and Lars Terenius of Uppsala, Sweden, announced almost simultaneously the discovery of specific receptors for such opiates in the brain. Snyder's lab located a high density of receptors in the medial thalamus, an area of the brain responsible for registering deep sustained pain; in the amygdala, a region of the brain's limbic system that plays a role in controlling emotion; and in the spinal cord...